Extracting native code from C
Anthony Hannan
ajh18 at cornell.edu
Wed Mar 13 16:55:13 UTC 2002
John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> Normally you need to indicate to the hosting OS and processor that
> this chunk of data is now instructions. This becomes very important
> where you have hardware architectures that have different cache lines
> for data and for instructions.
> You should take a look at the jitter 3 stuff.
I did but I could not find where it was doing anything like this. Is there
a C system call that we can use for designating memory as code or data?
If there is maybe we can #ifdef it out for platforms that don't need it and
don't understand it.
Bert Freudenberg <bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:
> SunOS: works
> IRIX: crash
Thanks, Bert. Do you think the IRIX crash is related to what John is
saying above?
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